Jimmy Duncan was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary death row after Judge Alvin Sharp granted him bail, setting it at ...

Bernard Joseph and Marcus Hamilton are serving life terms for murdering a priest. Today, they are claimants in the New ...

Sharnae Every was sentenced to 41 months for creating over 110 fake PPP loans, including supervised release and a fee, ...

A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison.

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The immigration detainees sent to a notorious Louisiana prison last month are being punished for crimes for which they have already served time, the American Civil Liberties Union ...

ANGOLA, La. — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

Brandon Jermaine Francisco, 39, of Mansura, pleaded guilty in federal court Nov. 13 to committing a carjacking resulting in ...

A inmate in Louisiana is on the run after allegedly throwing a chemical substance at an officer and escaping from jail, ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation put together the case that sent them to prison on child pornography charges.

The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Department said two inmates broke out after a "brief struggle," during which a chemical substance was thrown at a police officer's face.